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Phil Barton

Life skills are those skills that enable individuals to effectively face the demands and challenges of daily life.

Among these, critical thinking is one of the fundamental requisites for the emancipation and participation in the social life of every human being. 

 

 • But what do we actually mean when we talk about critical thinking? 
 • Is it possible to think of building tools for the development and evaluation of critical thinking? 

The volume intends to answer these questions through theoretical and operational material. 

 • This is a hands-on book focused on developing your intelligence and critical thinking skills to make decisions. 
 • This is not an abstract story about thinking and I assure you that after reading it you will not be the same person who is reading these words. 

With the critical thinking tools and strategies that I will teach you in this book, you will learn not to be deceived by cunning techniques of argumentation, to be sane, to strive to understand and appreciate the points of view of others, to analyze the reasoning with which you do not necessarily agree and change your points of view when you are faced with a better reasoning.

Gary Tredwell

CRITICAL THINKING

CRITICAL THINKING: Think Smarter And Improve Your Decision Making And Problem Solving Skills

In this manual you will find a series of tips and mental models to think better while avoiding the most common cognitive biases and logical fallacies, how and why we are persuaded by people and advertisements and how to make better decisions. 

 

After reading this book, you will realize that an important percentage of the people you hang out with (or hear about) are subject to reasoning errors, but this does not depend on intelligence (or at least marginally) but on habits, partial information and how our mind has been structured during evolution but, above all, it depends on our tendency towards cognitive economy: having to decide on the basis of rational reasoning requires longer times and many resources. In order not to overload our brains and to be able to cope with such continuous requests in a reasonable time without being exhausted, we are forced to use intuition and some cognitive (heuristic) shortcuts. This way of reasoning, however, makes us more likely to choose in an associative, metaphorical and casual way, more rarely in a probabilistic way. 

Who is this book for? 

 

To people who want to improve their ability to argue, to those who want to know the most common cognitive biases and logical fallacies but, also, to those who want to deepen persuasion, decision making, logic and some curiosities about the human mind. This book starts from the basics and, vertically, deepens most of the topics covered.

CRITICAL THINKING

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